"They're calling it the Arctic Row. Four men with a profound love of adventure are setting out to do something dangerous and unprecedented -- something they could not have done before the ice covering the top of the world began to melt in earnest."

Mock26:"They're calling it the Arctic Row. Four men with a profound love of adventure are setting out to do something dangerous and unprecedented -- something they could not have done before the ice covering the top of the world began to melt in earnest."

One word: Summer.

Also.... prevailing winds. Anyone else watching Deadliest Catch? Wind switched from the south to out of the north and the whole Strait is chock full of ice.

I think this is BS. They are not "crossing the Arctic Ocean" - not even circumnavigating it. Inuvik is in NWT about 500 miles from Barrow AK. The ice receeds several miles from shore during the summer months. While rowing from Inuvik to Providenia is a lofty goal, it's not like they're rowing from Barrow to the north of Norway across the North Pole.

If they do it quickly, they might not freeze to death.If they tip over even once, they will freeze to death.And, while it is certainly dangerous and difficult, I don't think it's the sort of feat that people will look at and think "Oooooh, that's AMAZING!"I really don't see the point here.

Technically it is possible to row across the arctic ocean for a while... then you land on the five hundred mile wide icepack and have a cook-out followed by rowing back where you came from. They're not gonna be able to go from Atlantic to Pacific here... its just not possible. The current "clear" path right now requires an icebreaker and circumnavigating the pack is an unlikely several thousand mile trip.

Portage IS possible but the total amount of supplies and dogs isn't very sea-worthy for four men to row, something like 1400 pounds of equipment, dog and food.